Template:Today in Baseball/December 23
November 29: Today's featured birthday is that of Joe Price, who turns 68.
- 1886 - The new Cleveland Blues hire Jimmy Williams as their manager.
- 1953 - Junior Gilliam wins the 1953 National League Rookie of the Year Award.
- 1975 - A three-person panel, headed by arbitrator Peter Seitz, declares Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally (pictured) free agents. The decision opens the way to free agency in Major League Baseball.
- 1986 - The Lotte Orions deal superstar Hiromitsu Ochiai to the Chunichi Dragons for Kazuhiko Ushijima, Sadaharu Hiranuma, Shigeru Kuwata and Seiji Kamikawa.
- 1990 - Lotte Orions first-round pick Hideo Koike refuses to report to the team, going to the industrial leagues instead.
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